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Statement of Morotomi (A supplemental statement taken 22 May 47) In May 1945 Ishiyama came to the Fukuoka 2nd Army Hospital, and Morotomi heard a conversation between him and Ibe, the head of the hospital, in which Ishiyama told Ibe that in cases where it was necessary to give blood transfusions to patients it was possible to use diluted sea water, that he wanted clean sea water, but that it would have to be brought some distance, wondered whether Ibe would send a hospital truck to such a place and bring such water back to him, Ibe saying that he would if he could. Ibe later told Morotomi that he could see no sense in using sea water as a blood substitute since there were already such substitutes as Sodium Chloride solution, the Rock Solution, and the Ringer Solution, which were plentiful and had been tested. |